1988 North Hertfordshire District Council election
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The 1988 North Hertfordshire District Council election was held on 5 May 1988, at the same time as other local elections across England and Scotland. There were 18 out of 50 seats on North Hertfordshire District Council up for election, being the usual third of the council plus a by-election in Codicote ward.[1]
The Conservatives made a net gain of one seat to increase their majority on the council. The former SDP–Liberal Alliance group of eight councillors had fragmented ahead of the election; four joined the new merged party of the Social and Liberal Democrats (renamed the Liberal Democrats the following year), but the other four (including former Alliance group leader, Tony Quinn) joined the breakaway continuing Social Democratic Party opposed to the merger.[2]
The overall results were as follows:[3]
| 1988 North Hertfordshire District Council election | ||||||||||
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| Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
| Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
| Conservative | 12 |  1 |
66.7 | 15 | 27 | 54.0 | 14,569 | 41.1 | +1.6 | |
| Labour | 5 |  |
27.8 | 8 | 13 | 26.0 | 11,412 | 32.2 | +7.8 | |
| SLD | 0 |  1 |
0.0 | 3 | 3 | 6.0 | 6,094 | 17.2 | -14.5 | |
| SDP | 0 | |
0.0 | 4 | 4 | 8.0 | 1,363 | 3.8 | New | |
| Ratepayers | 1 | |
5.6 | 2 | 3 | 6.0 | 1,869 | 5.3 | +1.2 | |
| Green | 0 | |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 138 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
